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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (2): 381–413.
Published: 01 April 2016
..., this article extends the previously limited nature of our understanding of indigenous soldiers in the Spanish Pacific, focusing in particular on the problem of what motivated indigenous people to join the Spanish military. The existing historiography of reward structures among indigenous elites is here coupled...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 400–401.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Terry Rugeley A Black Soldier's Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War of Independence . By Batrell Ricardo ; edited and translated by Sanders Mark A. . ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2010 . lxix + 225 pp., introduction, appendix, acknowledgments...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (3): 489–533.
Published: 01 July 2004
...Ana Mariella Bacigalupo Spanish and criollo soldiers in what is now Chile viewed colonial Mapuche and especially male shamans ( machi weye ) as perverse sodomites engaged in devil worship. I analyze the gender identities of male and female machi in the colonial period by considering ethnic, gender...
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Ethnohistory (2001) 48 (1-2): 123–155.
Published: 01 April 2001
... the 1820s practices of secondary burial re-emerged from long-distance repatriation of soldiers' remains and from ceremonies of tomb-to-tomb transfer as kin built new sepulchres of stone. Because they consumed time, energy, significant financial resources and tended to strengthen local networks of loyalty...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 269–284.
Published: 01 April 2009
... wars. This essay documents several instances in which the presence of Native American soldiers within the same or nearby units who spoke a common native language was discovered by accident, either by their commanding officers or by the members themselves, and their subsequent use in sending military...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 549–573.
Published: 01 October 2018
... with implementing plans to transform into loyal subjects these mobile hunters and foragers, who inhabited a forested expanse separating the colony’s primary inland mining district from the Atlantic coast. Actively engaging settlers, soldiers, and agents of the state, the Botocudo contested Portugal’s geopolitical...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 621–645.
Published: 01 October 2018
... and political organization. Following Hal Langfur, we can term this general making of spaces a re-territorialization. Critical social relations include those between Amerindian ethnic entities and their leaders, soldiers, and missionaries. This article focuses on a key spatial relation between Amerindian...
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Ethnohistory (2019) 66 (2): 329–352.
Published: 01 April 2019
... engaged with Spanish mediation between Indigenous peoples. As this article demonstrates, missionaries and soldiers brokered Indigenous peace agreements to protect overland communication between Sonora and Alta California and stake out a role for the empire in the river region. In turn, Native peoples...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 January 2013
... homes of a Kéex’ Kwáan Tlingit Indian village located on the shoreline; a village where men, women, and children had lived for thousands of years. A few minutes later longboats with armed soldiers put ashore and estab- lished a military perimeter around the village. After a brief reconnaissance...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 519–545.
Published: 01 October 2021
... by suppressive fire, and they possibly refrained from fully attacking the soldiers holding Black Kettle’s camp for fear of hitting the captured women and children. Toward evening, Custer feigned an eastward advance toward the villages downstream, which scattered the combatants on the ridges back toward...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 255–289.
Published: 01 April 2005
...; but on what was arguably the more important level of local and regional governance, this often appeared far from the case. More than in any other major region, native raids on settlers, slaves, soldiers, and property in the eastern reaches of the captaincy of Minas Gerais (see fig. 1) seemed diffi- cult...
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 679–708.
Published: 01 October 2010
... of the events to his superior, Junípero Serra, three weeks after the event. In addition, the four soldiers stationed at the mission later described the uprising to their captain. In early November, Mission San Diego de Alcalá housed four sol- diers, two missionaries, two blacksmiths...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (2): 293–316.
Published: 01 April 2004
... responded to the call to take the warpath. Five hundred Guaycuruans attacked San Javier de Mocobis, but the Argentine army defeated the believers. The soldier’s firearms proved to the indigenous people that the prophets had misguided them (Saeger 2000: 177). The earliest messianic movements recorded...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (4): 643–669.
Published: 01 October 2003
... on Spanish colonization seem to have been lost to historians. For genera- tions, therefore, historians of colonial California have relied almost exclu- sively on the letters, narratives, and reports of the Franciscans, soldiers...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 671–695.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., where men who soldier and pursue war in different ways meet and compete [La guerra es la que causa y causará, dó quiera que la haya, grandes novedades é notables eventos, en especial, como he dicho, donde se juntan é concurren diversas é diferentes maneras é costumbres de hombres á militar é seguir la...
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Ethnohistory (2015) 62 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 April 2015
... Cadavers, 400 Book Reviews particularly as they ponder how the production and organization of their sources affects their scholarship. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2854395­ A Black Soldier’s Story: The Narrative of Ricardo Batrell and the Cuban War...
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Ethnohistory (2012) 59 (2): 261–291.
Published: 01 April 2012
... and natives at the time of the Seven Years’ War. In these assaults, by British soldiers, colonial forces, and their aboriginal allies, a number of women and children were captured—including, John Jr. tells us, his father, who would become John Norton Sr. It is possible that John Jr. confused Keowee...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (2): 338–339.
Published: 01 April 2018
....) Copyright 2018 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2018 “On a hot day in May 1887, a group of Bolivian soldiers halted their march across a flat savanna laced by lakes and tributaries of the Amazon. They were taking ten indigenous prisoners back to their headquarters in Trinidad, the local capital...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (4): 673–674.
Published: 01 October 2018
.... Part 1 consists of three chapters focused on people of French ancestry criticizing society in the newly independent United States: the French-soldier-turned-British-loyalist Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, the revolutionary enthusiast and Democratic-Republican essayist Philip Freneau...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (3): 587–588.
Published: 01 July 2016
... center on significant historical episodes. Chapter 1, for instance, examines the experiences and mind-set of Garibaldinos, the foreign soldiers (Italian, French, and Basque) who fought in Uruguay’s international and civil war, the Guerra Grande (1839–51), under Giuseppe Garibaldi. Their ideas and those...